He wanted to bid with his extra values, but since his diamonds and hearts were lacking substance, he passed also.
He is trifling with us, and this show of lo-cal ideas and casual gestures may be full of stuff, but is lacking substance.
Yes, not all online activism is immediately productive – sharing images to raise awareness of cancer hardly seems necessary in a country where it affects 2.5 million people – but just as we don't lump Live Aid singles in with door-to-door donation drives, there is a diversity of activism to be found on the internet, and not all of it is lacks substance or value.
Shadow secretary of state for education, Lucy Powell, said proposals were lacking in substance and will cause many schools uncertainty.
After more than 20 debates, many of them about real, actual issues, it's hard to argue that the Democratic primary has been lacking in substance.
And for Carolyn Castore, 47, who works for a nonprofit organization, the feel-good tenor of the opening night was lacking in substance.
Under the law, that penalty is reserved for transactions that show "negligence or disregard of rules or regulations," or are "lacking economic substance".
Iraq has readied itself this week for a moment big on symbolism, but, like so much of the war and subsequent occupation, what appears to be big in symbolism is subject to claims that it is lacking in substance.
But Alexander Lambsdorff, vice-president of the European parliament and a member of the German free market liberals the FDP, said that in his view the reforms were lacking in substance.
He levels a number of verdicts along the way: he finds Manet's work uneven; Degas is not the misogynist he's made out to be; and the work of the sole American artist Barnes considers at length, the Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg, is lacking in substance, "a visual gargle".
Lest you think we're lacking in substance, here's some brain food for you to munch on.
